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Realising efficient conversion of nitrogen-containing plastic waste with ceria-based catalysts

The proliferation of plastic waste in the 21st century has serious environmental impacts on biodiversity and human health. Besides single-use plastic waste, there is mounting evidence that durable plastics, such as nitrogen-containing plastics, are being m ...

EPFL2025

Unraveling metal effects on CO2 uptake in pyrene-based metal-organic frameworks

Berend Smit, Emad Oveisi, Wendy Lee Queen, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Christopher Patrick Ireland, Andres Adolfo Ortega Guerrero, Elias Moubarak, Jordi Espin Marti, Fatma Pelin Uran, Nency Patricio Domingues, Miriam Jasmin Pougin, Yutao Li

Pyrene-based metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have tremendous potential for various applications. With infinite structural possibilities, the MOF community often relies on simulations to identify the most promising candidates for given applications. Among t ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2025

Giant Purcell Broadening and Lamb Shift for DNA-Assembled Near-Infrared Quantum Emitters

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Sachin Suresh Verlekar

Controlling the light emitted by individual molecules is instrumental to a number of advanced nanotechnologies ranging from super-resolution bioimaging and molecular sensing to quantum nanophotonics. Molecular emission can be tailored by modifying the loca ...

2025

Iron promoted end-on dinitrogen-bridging in heterobimetallic complexes of uranium and lanthanides

Rosario Scopelliti, Marinella Mazzanti, Nadir Jori, Keerthi Shivaraam Rangaraj Ananthakumar

End-on binding of dinitrogen to low valent metal centres is common in transition metal chemistry but remains extremely rare in f-elements chemistry. In particular, heterobimetallic end-on N2 bridged complexes of lanthanides are unprecedented despite their ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

Colloidal Atomic Layer Deposition on Nanocrystals Using Ligand-Modified Precursors

Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Petru Pasquale Albertini, Ona Segura Lecina, Philippe Benjamin Green, Jari Leemans, Mark Adrian Newton, Coline Marie Agathe Boulanger, Krishna Kumar

Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is a method to grow thin metal oxide layers on a variety of materials for applications spanning from electronics to catalysis. Extending ALD to colloidally stable nanocrystals promises to combine the benefits of thin metal oxi ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Controlling Atom-Photon Bound States in an Array of Josephson-Junction Resonators

Pasquale Scarlino, Marco Scigliuzzo

Engineering the electromagnetic environment of a quantum emitter gives rise to a plethora of exotic light -matter interactions. In particular, photonic lattices can seed long-lived atom-photon bound states inside photonic band gaps. Here, we report on the ...

American Physical Society2022

Site-selective overgrowth of Ag nanocrystals by Polyvinylpyrrolidone-mediated atom deposition by Ostwald ripening

Francesco Stellacci, Paulo Henrique Jacob Silva

The growth modulation of metal nanocrystals (NCs) by Ostwald ripening (OR) involves control of the relocation of matter by diffusional mass transfer from the dissolution of small nanocrystals (SNCs) towards large nanocrystals whose surface energy is lower. ...

ELSEVIER2022

Ripening of two-dimensional colloidal CdSe nanocrystals into zero-dimensional nanodots

Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Virendra Kumar Parashar, Xiaopeng Huang

Understanding the ripening of two-dimensional (2D) colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) is important for the controllable synthesis of NCs with desired morphology and properties. In this study, we systematically investigate the ripening behavior of the 2D CdSe NCs ...

CELL PRESS2021

Defect formation and mitigation during laser powder bed fusion of copper

Carl Tore Viktor Lindström

Additive manufacturing (AM) is a group of processing technologies which has the potential to revolutionize manufacturing by allowing easy manufacturing of complex shapes and small series. One AM-method which is of high interest for processing of metals is ...

EPFL2021

Tunable Metal Oxide Shell as a Spacer to Study Energy Transfer in Semiconductor Nanocrystals

Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Seryio Saris

Colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) are promising components in various optoelectronic and photocatalytic devices; however, the mechanism of energy transport in these materials remains to be further understood. Here, we investigate the distance depe ...

2020

Physics of optically driven nanojunctions

Philippe Andreas Rölli

Recent years have seen spectacular developments in the domain of nano-optics. Alongside the well-known techniques of super-resolution microscopy progress in nanofabrication has enabled important improvements in the fields of optical imaging and spectros ...

EPFL2020

Attosecond spectroscopy reveals alignment dependent core-hole dynamics in the ICl molecule

Hugo Jean Baptiste Marroux

The removal of electrons located in the core shells of molecules creates transient states that live between a few femtoseconds to attoseconds. Owing to these short lifetimes, time-resolved studies of these states are challenging and complex molecular dynam ...

Nature Research2020

Spontaneous Formation of CdSe Photoluminescent Nanotubes with Visible-Light Photocatalytic Performance

Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Virendra Kumar Parashar, Xiaopeng Huang

Two-dimensional (2D) colloidal CdSe nanocrystals (NCs) with precise atomic-scale thickness have attracted intensive attention in recent years due to their optical properties and quantum confinement effects originating from their particular band structure. ...

2019

Facile Production of Hexagonal Boron Nitride Nanoparticles by Cryogenic Exfoliation

Aleksandra Radenovic, Evgenii Glushkov, Vytautas Navikas, Andrey Chernev, Jean Camille Benjamin Comtet

Fluorescent nanoparticles with optically robust luminescence are imperative to applications in imaging and labeling. Here we demonstrate that hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) nanoparticles can be reliably produced using a scalable cryogenic exfoliation techni ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Characterization and Modelling of the Emission Zone and Exciton Dynamics in Doped Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

Markus Regnat

Only recently organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology has successfully managed the transition from research labs into the consumer market, taking a 60% share of the global mobile display market in 2018. The latest discovery of thermally activated de ...

EPFL2019

Colloidal Chemistry to Advance Studies in Artificial Photosynthesis

Raffaella Buonsanti

This article presents an overview of our research in the field of colloidal nanocrystal synthesis and their implementation into water splitting and CO2 reduction electrochemical cells. We discuss our approaches to tailormade novel material platforms to adv ...

Swiss Chemical Soc2016